How difficult is it to make Kotlin CLI or UI-less apps for Android?

May 22, 2017

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I'm always looking for a way to make apps on iOS and Android that are command line and / or GUI-less.

Perhaps Kotlin fits the bill?

The getting started with Kotlin tutorial sounds "easy". Phrase like "fairly simple", "extremely easy" make me LOL. Sure it's easy if you done this 8 million times i.e. tried many many procedural languages, SDKs etc but it's never easy for people if they are new to this crazy "real" programming game. I usually find it easy to get the "Hello World" working but hard to do what I want which is read the sensors like GPS and make graphics which somehow is never part of "Hello World" :-) ! (And I've programmed 10,000 line C applications you think it would be easier for me :-) !